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New shows, new gear
The Acquia podcast crew has been hanging out at HQ in Burlington, Massachusetts this week recording a bunch of new material. The newest member of our team is the appropriately named Deadkitten wind protector by Røde microphones. I can't think of a better one for Drupal podcasts!
New release schedule: Welcome to Wednesday
We're moving our weekly podcast releases to Wednesdays, but we didn't want to leave you hanging this weekend. We have a bunch of great stuff coming your way in the next months, so... More

Last week I had the great opportunity to go to the W3C Multilingual Web Workshop in Rome. It was a great gathering of standards crafters (from W3C, OASIS, etc.), service providers, academia, EU institutions and implementors.
A wide range of topics were covered. For example, who would have thought representing human names properly is even bigger a problem than date formats. With social services and highly tailored textual feedback these days, this is an important area. I also got insight into the latest thinking on machine... More

We work hard with partners to keep a steady flow of Drupal training events in our calendar to bring Drupal training as close to you as possible. However DrupalCon poses a great opportunity for you to get training on a variety of speciality topics. It’s an opportunity to learn from people whose skills are much in demand.
A great value!
DrupalCon’s registration price is exceedingly low. So if you think about it, adding the cost of training provides a huge advantage - and the total cost is still even lower than most tech... More

Are you following these marketing experts on Twitter? If not, you’re missing out on some great content from the smartest people in the marketing biz.
Follow @chiefmartecWhat does often tweet about? The intersection of technology and marketing.Sample tweet CMO of GE: "If you came into marketing because you didn't like numbers, then you don't have much of a future." http://t.co/QVq28yfNCu #CMO
Follow @mvolpeWhat does often... More

It’s been awhile since we’ve blogged, but that’s not to say we haven’t been hard at work improving Drupal Gardens for our thousands of site builders. We’ve added a host of new features since the last update including entity relationships and field collections for managing site content more easily, support for 301 domain redirects for search engine optimization and new Open Graph meta tag options for effectively managing interactions between Drupal Gardens websites and social networks.... More

The average travel time to get from Boston to Austin is about four hours. Throw in two feet of snow, and thousands of people trying to get to one destination and it could take a little bit longer. Like fourteen hours.
That was the travel time for me, Bryan House, Joe Wykes and John Carione. We hunkered down at Logan Airport for three hours. Spent another hour and a half on the tarmac. And then finally took off to our stop at Dallas. We were convinced we were going to be roadtrippin’ it to Austin. Things looked up for some of team Acquia when we arrived in Dallas. A few of us were able to re-... More

In a country where cynicism is a national pastime, we often greet government “policies” on open source adoption with more than a raised eyebrow and I must admit I was ready to do the same when I spotted the following tweet from Mark Taylor, CEO of Sirius, over the weekend:
Haven’t we been here before?
I’m not professing to be a public sector expert, but I’ve been round the block long enough with open source software (OSS) and the UK Government to recall a number of similar sounding “initiatives”, “guidelines”, “principles” and “policies” communicated by central government under the present... More

When does it make sense to start up a Big Data program? If your email marketing system isn't talking to your sales force automation system, and neither is synched up with your online purchase system, are you really ready to tackle a Big Data project? The answer may surprise you as we examine Big Data and its impact on the next generation digital experience in this third installment of our ongoing series "Are You Ready for Big Data?"
The good news for those who want to tap into the power of Big Data: The rise of this data revolution has been powered by a number of prominent open source and... More

Did you know that there is a strong likelihood a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability exists on your site? Have you specifically tested your site for XSS or other vulnerabilities? Are you not sure what that even means?
At DrupalCon Portland learn best practices of Drupal security with a full-day course from members of Acquia’s Engineering and Professional Services teams. We’ll show you what vulnerabilities you are most at risk for and the technical specifics of attacks like XSS and SQL injection. You’ll learn how to find and fix vulnerabilities during an in-depth, hands-on study of a vulnerable... More

Today we had a bit of an embarrassing situation when one of our business development reps accidentally emailed Matt Mullenweg, the creator of Wordpress, with an offer to switch to Drupal. Matt posted the email on his personal blog, and it’s triggered a lot of chatter on Twitter and on Matt’s blog.
We made an honest mistake. We assembled a small list of large media sites and emailed contacts from our database an offer to explore Drupal. Obviously Matt should not have been on that list. Usually we scrub email lists to... More

This may come as a shock, but some of us at Acquia aren't afraid to have a drink every once in a while. And what better time of year to discuss the finer points of beer and drinking than St. Patrick's day, right?
Beer tap in the Acquia kitchen
St. Patrick's day isn't just for the Irish anymore. Everyone should plan to be Irish for a day and celebrate on St. Patrick's Day. I've pulled together this blog post to help make sure this St. Patrick's Day and all other St. Patrick's Days that follow will be great!
Step 1: You need to get a drink. Preferably an Irish one! Some drinks to choose from... More

When does it make sense to start up a Big Data program? If your email marketing system isn't talking to your sales force automation system, and neither is synched up with your online purchase system, are you really ready to tackle a Big Data project? The answer may surprise you as we examine Big Data and its impact on the next generation digital experience in this second installment of our ongoing series "Are You Ready for Big Data?"
"If your organization stores multiple petabytes of data, if the information most... More

Robert Douglass, Director of Products at Commerce Guys, the originators and maintainers of Drupal Commerce sat down with me this week. We talked about how content, community, and commerce relate and help each other and why Drupal is the best platform to provide you with the digital elements of your users' experience of your online presence. Commerce Guys, in partnership with Acquia also has the support mechanisms that you need to succeed with Drupal and Commerce: from architecting your site,... More

By Heather James
If you're responsible for building and skilling up a team to develop Drupal sites, I'm going to introduce you to three inspiring internship programs you should know about. I'm also going to show you what is working in those programs to give you some ideas of how you can build your own team and give someone a great chance to change their lives.
A baffling situation
Most tech fields are struggling to hire skilled employees, and turnover is high. Start-ups attract employees with generous benefits (free beer! massages! yoga!) to try and pull in those who can bring experience to... More

Stanford University is home to a large and growing number of Drupal sites. Drupal’s qualities as a platform – flexibility, extensibility, and speed of development, to name a few – are part of this equation, of course. The other, vital component of this success is the efforts of a grassroots community of Drupal users at Stanford over the last few years. They have not only created great websites for the university, they’ve also dedicated time and effort to helping others succeed with Drupal and spread the word.
In 2011, the University officially recognized the value of these grassroots... More